JKL33

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    Should I lie about being fired?

    JKL33 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Good advice. Two very different
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    HCA StaRN contract

    JKL33 replied to nursingsprettycool17's topic in General Nursing

    Because "nursing shortage." So because of this purportedly massive shortage, our own representative organizations have been complicit in allowing anyone who wants to make a buck to churn out...
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    HCA StaRN contract

    JKL33 replied to nursingsprettycool17's topic in General Nursing

    Or anything. Like, you know, our nursing organizations could write some of their "white papers" which actually denounce this ***. That's exactly the kind of thing that I've been ranting about...
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    80% BSN by 2020: Where Are We Now?

    JKL33 replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with this. I guess the question is, given the extreme power imbalances and the types of entities who are in bed together, what good is any of this when there's (relatively) no support for...
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    Does it feel to everyone else that many newer nurses glamourize the ER and ICU?

    JKL33 replied to The0Walrus's topic in General Nursing

    ?? Hilarious. I concur, that is the general theme. Especially the delusions of grandeur part. No wonder there's no time for teaching stupid clinical skills in nursing school. There's important...
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    New Grad RN hired as an “RN Supervisor” at a SNF

    JKL33 replied to ana_96's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not going to tell you to quit; that is your business. Maybe you will decide that there is enough support for you to succeed. Maybe you will decide to quit. But I am going to call out your...
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    RN ADN

    JKL33 replied to Rayacj's topic in General Nursing

    Said whom? Do your best to take good care of patients. That's all that matters. I'm almost certain that whatever other forms of recognition you might have in mind are of exceedingly little value....
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    80% BSN by 2020: Where Are We Now?

    JKL33 replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    Instead of this kind of talk, why don't you write about what you disagree with? (Caveat: I will admit that I wouldn't have used plantation verbiage but other than that I generally agree with the...
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    80% BSN by 2020: Where Are We Now?

    JKL33 replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry, Muno, but some of this is nothing more than example of how (other) professions also make bad choices. Some of them have a few more things going for them than we do, though. But, by the...
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    80% BSN by 2020: Where Are We Now?

    JKL33 replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, let us (I am going to disagree with you for a second here): No it isn't. The material for a bachelor's degree in nursing simply isn't truly challenging. However, nursing school itself...
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    80% BSN by 2020: Where Are We Now?

    JKL33 replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    It has been nurses who have stood in front of staff meetings and proudly said that they are working very hard to decrease our need to use critical thinking. It is nurses who claim xyz is right...
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    80% BSN by 2020: Where Are We Now?

    JKL33 replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    The thing that makes me disappointed is the number of ill-considered ideas we will sign up for hoping to catapult ourselves. Meanwhile business people rub their hands together and practically salivate...
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    ER to ICU?

    JKL33 replied to iheartnursing91's topic in Critical Care

    That is foolishness. You were fed a line of bull and not a very original one,
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    DOC Guilt-Tripping Me To Accept Call-Ins

    JKL33 replied to amanda269's topic in General Nursing

    A little straightforward talk here: These people who routinely call you to work extra, does it sound like they realistically have room to feel ticked off about an employee who "only" shows up...
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    Gift from the 'rona, or lamb to the slaughter?

    JKL33 replied to zephyr9's topic in General Nursing

    That's the bottom line. So you might as well go for it as long as you understand that some version of off-the-rails, 3-ring-circus + [--] show is quite likely. In addition, don't believe anything they...
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    How to work with nurses who have attitude?

    JKL33 replied to NurseCam's topic in General Nursing

    That's what you are there to do. You are not there for kudos, appreciation or even approval from your coworkers. What they think doesn't really matter if you have tried your level best and done...
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    They said they’d have me work night shifts and now they’re scheduling me for rotating shifts.

    JKL33 replied to ThatOneRN_'s topic in General Nursing

    You see...unless this is a mere oversight (which I acknowledge there is a small chance it could be), this is absolutely a manager saying whatever is necessary while betting on a new employee and...
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    They said they’d have me work night shifts and now they’re scheduling me for rotating shifts.

    JKL33 replied to ThatOneRN_'s topic in General Nursing

    I hear you, I do. But I would be fine with that ^ because this person (the manager) knew exactly what their true intent was....they either meant their word or they didn't. I have no time for people...
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    New nurse feeling guilty about first death

    JKL33 replied to midnighttokens's topic in General Nursing

    This feeling is a common phenomenon...I don't understand it exactly. Maybe there is something healthy that comes from going through the process of feeling guilty about death and then later feeling...
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    They said they’d have me work night shifts and now they’re scheduling me for rotating shifts.

    JKL33 replied to ThatOneRN_'s topic in General Nursing

    "I have received my schedule and see that it involves regular shift rotation. We had a discussion at the time of my hiring that it would be worked out so that I am working straight night shifts. I am...
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    I Hurt A Patient

    JKL33 replied to MInurse.st's topic in General Nursing

    I'm going to say it, and I mean it kindly: The self-deprecation is not appropriate. It's really terrible. Don't do this to yourself, you don't deserve it and the things you are saying just aren't...
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    Is calling off for burnout a thing?

    JKL33 replied to Stella_Blue's topic in General Nursing

    I would take a short break then refuse to put up with this B.S. When there is not enough help for seriously bad situations then I would never wait for any charge nurse. Start calling people. I know...
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    Pregnancy and light duty

    JKL33 replied to Swirl531's topic in General Nursing

    I think your first action should be to care for yourself the way nurses should feel they can whether they are pregnant or not. For example, there is likely a job description that gives an idea of...
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    Reading the note wrong and thought MD note was an order

    JKL33 replied to xmsanta's topic in Patient Medications

    Yes. In my very first nursing position I was caring for fairly sick patients but usually had a little period of downtime at a particular point in the night and I poured over my patients' very thick...
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    New position, new hospital; complained to manager about preceptorship. Did I do the right thing?

    JKL33 replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    It's very simple. (Some) people who lack self-esteem or confidence or just don't feel good about themselves for some reason often feel better if they can make others appear less-than. In their own...